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Bondels Dam

The 928th tallest dam in the world

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Bondels Dam is a reservoir outside of Karasburg in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. Located 7 km west of Karas, it dams the Obub River and was built to enhance the recharge of the Bondels Dam aquifer. It has a capacity of 1.105 million cubic metres and was completed in 1959 while Namibia was known as South West Africa.

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